Cool, an ad where we can leave feedback! Well, I had a scottevest and I found the material to be poor quality, some of the pokets were torn after less than a year, which never happened to me with any other jacket in that timeframe (it usually take 5 years of heavy usage). Also the vest is heavy even when empty. I'm better off with a normal jacket and a small backpack (which is more convenient to store/retrieve things from than trying to remember you put thing Y in pocket 2364263426).
This new connection doesn't seem to bring much to the table. I remember the Apple Display Connector which passed DVI, USB and power in a single cable; sure it had limitations and was proprietary but it really helped reduce the clutter. Why can't those new display standard bring more functinalities rather than just DRM?
Geez, the iPhone must have scared the crap out of everyone in the industry, seems it's Anti-Apple FUD since the iPhone was announced.
I own an iPod (3rd gen or something), works great with the hundreds of CDs I own and ripped. I bought 1 song on the iTunes store. The article lie in implying the iPod is limited to FairPlay music. This is not the Zune, iTunes doesn't add a DRM layer to your music. It plays non-DRMed songs just fine.
I own a Mac, plays all the fansubbed unlicensed anime series I get on bittorrent. Works even in FrontRow. And on the video iPod and Apple TV if I batch convert them to H264. Again, non-DRMed video plays fine.
Are you sure it's ineptitude? IBM didn't have to just restore the account, they pobably had to do a security audit to make sure the guy didn't do anything else, didn't plant backdoors, etc. Depending how much access and how big their net is, yeah that could be $20K. BTW IBM is more in the $100/hour range for consulting.
No, it would not be the first country to make P2P downloading legal. P2P downloading for personal usage is perfectly legal in Canada; which is just an extension of the right to private copy which let you borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy for your own private usage. What is not legal is uploading / distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted material; likewise it's an extension of the existing laws, you can't make copies and give/sell them to others.
A lot of people are bemoaning the fact that with apps being able to run natively in Windows mode on the Macintels that nobody will bother porting their apps over to OSX. Although there will be some lazy/cheap idiot developers out there who will take this approach native OSX apps will get the buzz and the recommendations and ultimately the sales.
Actually, straight port from Windows to System 7/Mac OS 8/9 was tried (via some cross-platform frameworks), the ports looked like Windows apps and behaved oddly. No one cared for them.
Most Mac users like their apps to be Mac-like and behave in a fashion consistent with the Mac user interface guidelines. Straight ports won't cut it. So I don't think a flood of oddly behaving apps (by Mac OS X standards) will have any effects on the Mac software developers.
Nope. Darwin driver architecture (IOKit) and kernel have nothing to do with the Linux kernel.
I think whenever the driver binary is PPC or x86 is the least of your problems at that point.
Solution to problems: space fountain
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I thought space elevators with cables were out (due to the tensil strength the cable should have) and space fountain were in (since easier to build, not just buildable on the equator, etc.)
The movie/music industries tries to get it all and is upset when it is foiled.
One thing to remember about France and Canada: We pay a levy/tax on ALL blank media (no matter what we use them for) and MP3 players. That money go to the music industry as a compensation for the copying done by the citizens of the country.
The reasoning in Canada is that you can't make/keep laws that make the matter worse than the problem they try to solve (it's written so in our consititution). And such making joe files-swappers criminals, would make a huge % of the population criminals, which is a no go. Still the government recognize the copyright holders should be compensated hence the levy.
So the MPAA moans and whines, but it's getting millions (if not billions, I don't have the numbers) from that levy (in addition to all the legit sales of their products.) So it's not like the citizens get a free lunch.
It is amazing how many people still believe that PPC is vastly superior to x86.
It's amazing how all the new game consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, etc.) are PPC based/derived. There might be a reason, no?
Also if Apple were using Intel CPU you can bet the Mac would still not be regular PCs (most likely still have custom motherboard/chipsets) and that MacOS X would only run on Apple hardware.
>A genuine question for Moore fans: doesn't it bother >you even slightly that Moore expects you not to >independently verify what he presents as fact? If you skimmed his recent books, such as Stupid White Men or Dude, Where is My Country, you would see that Moore names his sources... you are free to decide whenever to check them out for yourself or not.
The best programmer I paired with for labs at the university was blind. He was running Linux with a text to braille gizmo under his laptop. The fact all was text based was a boon for him (he didn't use X, he probably used screen.)
Most students had a hard time following his lead because he knew all the code of the projects he worked on by heart (I think he has a perfect memory), so be jumped left and right in the code (going directly at the right line number) at an amazing speed. We worked on his box simulatenously through kibbitz.
Macbidouille had an article about this
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You can replace the fan screws of your G5 fans by anti-vib fan fasteners.
The article is in French: http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu. php?date= 2004-02-18#7900
However the PDF is in English + pictures: http://www.macbidouille.com/downloads/G 5_PSU_Denoi ser.pdf.sit
The GUI was indeed a problem selling Macs to businesses, as it made the Mac be considered "a toy".
Apple actually spent a lot of energy fighting this perception and that's one of the reason there were so few games on the Mac (compared to the Apple// and to the IBM PC.)
I believe the lack of games is one of the reasons the Mac didn't get more marketshare in the home market.
Fire us all and outsource our jobs to people working working for a few bucks / month. Then let's see who will buy your $1000+ computers, $300+ videocards, $10+ CDs and $20+ DVDs.
Mars Express has not yet tempted to contact the Beagle 2. Seems it's the only one that has been specially designed and tested to transmit and receive signals from Beagle 2.
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Cool, an ad where we can leave feedback! Well, I had a scottevest and I found the material to be poor quality, some of the pokets were torn after less than a year, which never happened to me with any other jacket in that timeframe (it usually take 5 years of heavy usage). Also the vest is heavy even when empty. I'm better off with a normal jacket and a small backpack (which is more convenient to store/retrieve things from than trying to remember you put thing Y in pocket 2364263426).
This new connection doesn't seem to bring much to the table. I remember the Apple Display Connector which passed DVI, USB and power in a single cable; sure it had limitations and was proprietary but it really helped reduce the clutter. Why can't those new display standard bring more functinalities rather than just DRM?
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.h tml
It'a all cool. I reject Walmart. So there.
Geez, the iPhone must have scared the crap out of everyone in the industry, seems it's Anti-Apple FUD since the iPhone was announced.
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I own an iPod (3rd gen or something), works great with the hundreds of CDs I own and ripped. I bought 1 song on the iTunes store. The article lie in implying the iPod is limited to FairPlay music. This is not the Zune, iTunes doesn't add a DRM layer to your music. It plays non-DRMed songs just fine.
I own a Mac, plays all the fansubbed unlicensed anime series I get on bittorrent. Works even in FrontRow. And on the video iPod and Apple TV if I batch convert them to H264. Again, non-DRMed video plays fine.
So, allow me not to be scared.
If you want to worry, check the big brotherish content protection in Vista:
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_
I didn't know testosterone could be spelled Toxoplasma gondii
Yeah, people don't need quad cores, nor do they need more than 640 KB of memory!
The applications will come soon enough for those.
Are you sure it's ineptitude? IBM didn't have to just restore the account, they pobably had to do a security audit to make sure the guy didn't do anything else, didn't plant backdoors, etc. Depending how much access and how big their net is, yeah that could be $20K. BTW IBM is more in the $100/hour range for consulting.
No, it would not be the first country to make P2P downloading legal. P2P downloading for personal usage is perfectly legal in Canada; which is just an extension of the right to private copy which let you borrow a CD from a friend and make a copy for your own private usage. What is not legal is uploading / distributing unauthorized copies of copyrighted material; likewise it's an extension of the existing laws, you can't make copies and give/sell them to others.
Honnestly Nokia is not the only one with those issues, about every single vendor is non-compliant and require some workarounds for each handset.
http://www.vortoj.com/sjpp/ comes in handy to have conditional code and still be able to use an IDE.
It would be nice if the j2me emulators could run in the debugger consistently though. Maybe Nokia could help improve that.
So Xbox 360 is actually a great deal compared to the Atari 2600 if you just look at price.
It's a good deal if you look at the graphics too!
There was despair.com mock trademark of the frownies a few years ago tho :)
http://www.despair.com/frownies.html
Dude, the train has aerobrakes shaped like cat ears straight from an anime!
You can see them better at:
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/57981.asp
A lot of people are bemoaning the fact that with apps being able to run natively in Windows mode on the Macintels that nobody will bother porting their apps over to OSX. Although there will be some lazy/cheap idiot developers out there who will take this approach native OSX apps will get the buzz and the recommendations and ultimately the sales.
Actually, straight port from Windows to System 7/Mac OS 8/9 was tried (via some cross-platform frameworks), the ports looked like Windows apps and behaved oddly. No one cared for them.
Most Mac users like their apps to be Mac-like and behave in a fashion consistent with the Mac user interface guidelines. Straight ports won't cut it. So I don't think a flood of oddly behaving apps (by Mac OS X standards) will have any effects on the Mac software developers.
Nope. Darwin driver architecture (IOKit) and kernel have nothing to do with the Linux kernel.
I think whenever the driver binary is PPC or x86 is the least of your problems at that point.
I thought space elevators with cables were out (due to the tensil strength the cable should have) and space fountain were in (since easier to build, not just buildable on the equator, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain
The movie/music industries tries to get it all and is upset when it is foiled.
One thing to remember about France and Canada:
We pay a levy/tax on ALL blank media (no matter what we use them for) and MP3 players. That money go to the music industry as a compensation for the copying done by the citizens of the country.
The reasoning in Canada is that you can't make/keep laws that make the matter worse than the problem they try to solve (it's written so in our consititution). And such making joe files-swappers criminals, would make a huge % of the population criminals, which is a no go. Still the government recognize the copyright holders should be compensated hence the levy.
So the MPAA moans and whines, but it's getting millions (if not billions, I don't have the numbers) from that levy (in addition to all the legit sales of their products.) So it's not like the citizens get a free lunch.
It is amazing how many people still believe that PPC is vastly superior to x86.
It's amazing how all the new game consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, etc.) are PPC based/derived. There might be a reason, no?
Also if Apple were using Intel CPU you can bet the Mac would still not be regular PCs (most likely still have custom motherboard/chipsets) and that MacOS X would only run on Apple hardware.
>A genuine question for Moore fans: doesn't it bother
>you even slightly that Moore expects you not to
>independently verify what he presents as fact?
If you skimmed his recent books, such as Stupid White Men or Dude, Where is My Country, you would see that Moore names his sources... you are free to decide whenever to check them out for yourself or not.
The best programmer I paired with for labs at the university was blind. He was running Linux with a text to braille gizmo under his laptop. The fact all was text based was a boon for him (he didn't use X, he probably used screen.)
Most students had a hard time following his lead because he knew all the code of the projects he worked on by heart (I think he has a perfect memory), so be jumped left and right in the code (going directly at the right line number) at an amazing speed. We worked on his box simulatenously through kibbitz.
You can replace the fan screws of your G5 fans by anti-vib fan fasteners.
. php?date= 2004-02-18#7900
G 5_PSU_Denoi ser.pdf.sit
The article is in French:
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu
However the PDF is in English + pictures:
http://www.macbidouille.com/downloads/
Enjoy.
The GUI was indeed a problem selling Macs to businesses, as it made the Mac be considered "a toy".
// and to the IBM PC.)
Apple actually spent a lot of energy fighting this perception and that's one of the reason there were so few games on the Mac (compared to the Apple
I believe the lack of games is one of the reasons the Mac didn't get more marketshare in the home market.
Fire us all and outsource our jobs to people working working for a few bucks / month. Then let's see who will buy your $1000+ computers, $300+ videocards, $10+ CDs and $20+ DVDs.
Shortsighted buffons.
Mars Express has not yet tempted to contact the Beagle 2. Seems it's the only one that has been specially designed and tested to transmit and receive signals from Beagle 2.
More in the ESA news item.
I really like my Waterfield Design's Sleevecase:
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http://www.sfbags.com/
The ZeroShock sleeve seems nice too:
http://shinza.com/product_info.php?products